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A UFO (or unidentified flying object) is any perceived aerial phenomenon that cannot be immediately identified or explained.
UFO also may refer to:
Computer technology
- .ufo, the file extension for Ulead PhotoImpact documents
- Unified File and Object (UFO), object storage architecture
- UHF Follow-On satellite, a series of US military communications satellites
- Unified Font Object, an XML-based future proof open format for digital fonts
- Unified Foundational Ontology, an upper ontology for conceptual modelling purposes.
Art, entertainment and media
Film and television
- UFO (1956 film), directed by Winston Jones
- U.F.O. (1993 film), starring Roy "Chubby" Brown
- U.F.O. (2012 film), with Jean-Claude Van Damme
- UFO (2018 film), directed by Ryan Eslinger, starring Alex Sharp, Gillian Anderson, about an airport sighting
- UFO (2022 film), a Turkish Netflix film
- UFO (American TV series), 2021 television documentary by J.J. Abrams
- UFO (British TV series), 1970s TV series by Gerry Anderson
- UFOs (TV series), 2021 French TV series
- UFO Ultramaiden Valkyrie, 2000s manga and anime television series
Music
Bands and performers
- UFO (musician) (born 1981), Danish hip hop artist, rapper and singer
- Ufo361 (born 1988), German rapper
- UFO (band), an English hard rock band
- UFO, the original name of the English R&B group better known as JLS
- UFO Yepha, Danish hip hop duo
- The Unidentified Flying Objects, an American rock band
- United Future Organization, a Japanese jazz duo
Albums
- U.F.O. (album), a 1969 album by Jim Sullivan
- UFO EP, by Torch
- UFO (Newton Faulkner EP), by Newton Faulkner
Songs
- "UFO" (Mallrat song featuring Allday), (2018)
- "UFO" (Pink Lady song) (1977)
- "UFO", song by ESG on their EP ESG (1981)
- "UFO" (Sneaky Sound System song) (2007)
- "U.F.O." (Coldplay song) (2011)
- "UFO" (Vigiland song) (2014)
- "U.F.O.", song by Blonde Redhead on their album La Mia Vita Violenta (1995)
- "UFO", song by D-Block Europe and Aitch from the album The Blue Print: Us vs. Them (2020)
Other musical works
- UFO (Michael Daugherty composition)
- UFOetry, multimedia UFO rock opera
Video games
- UFO Interactive Games, American video game company
UFO Defense family
- UFO: Enemy Unknown (1994), AKA X-COM: UFO Defense
- UFO: Aftermath (2003)
- UFO: Aftershock (2005)
- UFO: Afterlight (2007)
- UFO: Alien Invasion (2003)
Other video games
- UFO (1989) by Sublogic
- UFO Kamen Yakisoban (1994) for Super Famicom
- U.F.O.s (1997), adventure game by Artech
- UFO: A Day in the Life (1999) by Love-de-Lic
- UFO: Extraterrestrials (2007) by Chaos Concept
- Undefined Fantastic Object (2009), the twelfth entry in the Touhou Project series by ZUN
Other works
- UFOs: The Greatest Stories, 1996 short-story anthology by Martin H. Greenberg
Games and sports
- Claw vending machine AKA UFO
- UFO, a style of delivery in Ten-pin bowling
Clubs
- Ufo (Club, Berlin), Acid House club
- UFO Club, London underground club
Products and services
- UFO, brand of instant yakisoba
- UFO (restaurant) in Slovakia
- UFO (ride), amusement park ride
Other uses
- United Farmers of Ontario, Canadian political party c. 1920s
- UFO, variant of float b-boy move
- Ufo (wasp), genus of wasps
- UFO 34 (yacht), a sailboat
- UFO Radio, a radio station in Taiwan
- Uranium Fluorine Oxygen
- Ultra Fast Outflows, winds that come from supermassive black holes
- University of French Ontario, referring to the Université de l'Ontario français
See also
- U-Foes, Marvel Comics supervillain team
- Unidentified flying object (disambiguation)
- Flying saucer (disambiguation)
- Alien (disambiguation)